Early Settlements:
The Camun people, who were the earliest inhabitants of Lombardy, had settled in the Valcamonica area in Brescia. The rest of Italy was inhabited by Italic people and Etruscans. Gallo-Celtic tribes had settled on the plains of the Po Valley between 5th and 4th centuries BC, spreading into the lands of Ligurians and Etruscans which are now Milan, Brescia, Bergamo and other Lombardy cities. The settlements of the Insubre tribes were more dominant in the area where Milan is now located whereas the Celts changed their route to south. It was the Romans who expanded their borders to north where they named as Cisalpine Gaul. From 280 BC up to 222BC they began to found colonies as they conquer the town and renamed Mediolanum.
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